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Rep. Garret Graves was critical in helping Kevin McCarthy get the votes to be elected speaker. Now, he's taking the lead at the negotiating table on how to avoid a historic debt default.

More than 700 Illinois schools are within a quarter-mile of crop fields, yet state law doesn’t require pesticide applicators to notify them before spraying. Advocates say a new notification proposal would give educators and park staff time to move children indoors and reduce exposure.

The White House has been strong against China in trade talks, but NPR and PBS Frontline found top advisers battled for more than a year over imposing billions of dollars in tariffs on Chinese imports.

The auto repair trade has long been dominated by men. But the Girl Gang Garage in Phoenix wants more women in the field.

Michael Goldfarb is usually based in London where he covers British life and politics for NPR. So we took advantage of his tenure here in Washington, D.C. to help us understand that most British of games: cricket. Michael managed to find a cricket match on a field (the "wicket") near the Jefferson Memorial and, in this piece, he tells us what the game is all about.

courted by presidential candidates. With the state's caucuses a little over a week away, voters are just beginning to focus on the field of candidates and are clearly undecided on any one favorite.

Commentator David Fleischaker says we're facing high prices and a shortage of natural gas, with fewer rigs drilling, new fields less productive than old ones, and an explosion of demand. Natural gas has become the clean fuel of choice for consumers, industry, and the electric utility industry. The solution, he says, lies in balancing fuel development and the environment -- and learning to consume less.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports a judge in Los Angeles has ruled the city's plan to keep convention protesters away from the Staples Center violates the first amendment because it would force those protesting to go more than two football fields away from the site. City planners are now trying to come up with a new plan that satisfies both the convention and protesters.

Linda talks with Pamela Davis, a pitcher for the Colorado Silver Bullets baseball team. Last night, she became the first woman player to take the field for a sanctioned men's baseball team as she filled in during the fifth inning as a pitcher for the Jacksonville Suns in an exhibition game against the Australian Olympic team. Davis was credited with the win, in a six-to-nothing shutout.

On Monday night, Pete Alonso of the New York Mets won the Home Run Derby at Coors Field in Denver.